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Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next…
World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and…
World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport,…
The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential…
World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia…
World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the…
World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the…
World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of…
World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.